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Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva] or [kasaˈnɔːva]; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century.

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The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Cities, Dam, Government, Hold, Wise

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

Face, Laughing, Laughter, Make, People, Serious

I loved, I was loved, my health was good, I had a great deal of money, and I spent it, I was happy and I confessed it to myself.

Deal, Deals, Health, Loved, Money, Spent

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Affection, Blow, Gives, Giving, Moment, Sadness

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Grave, Graves, Love, Matrimony

Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

Body, Enjoyments, Fall, Require, Sleep, Sweet

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Liberty, Loved, Madness, Women

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Dead, Doubt, Giving, Lying, Perchance

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Curiosity, Love, Quarters, Romance, Three

I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. . . . We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and. . . deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

Blood, Company, Hatred, Intelligent, Men, Worthy

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Deceit, Dupe, General, Love Is, Lying, Men

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Destiny, Lives, Our Lives, Shape, Shapes, Thing

economy spoils pleasure

Economy, Pleasure, Spoil, Spoils

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

Hardest, Pleasure, Sweetest, Won

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

Eye, Fixed, Stream, System, Unconcernedly, Wind

Those who do not love life do not deserve it.

Deserve, Life, Love, Love Life

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Life, Life Is, Subject, Subjects, Worthy

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

Covered, Despised, Fool, Steel, Victory

We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.

Authors, Complaining, Grief, Ourselve, Woe, Woes

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Broken Heart, Feels, Love, Silent, View, Views

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